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Software has to be written to run on a particular operating system. While there are lots of programming languages that will run on many operating systems, a compiler or runtime engine has to interpret the programming language and translate it into commands that the operating system understands. The Operating System is the foundation of the building. Applications are the structure built on the foundation.

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